Obituary 1950S

---- ...... ------ 71 70 THE EAGLE OBITUARY Emeritus L) 94), formerly Fellow, (B.A. 18 1949, E nERRY 10 July KNoX M , Belfast, died OBITUARY ROBERT c f en's University Greek, Que professor of s CECIL BERTRAM SCOTT ALLOTT (RA. 1908), science master aged 80. Emeritus of Physic 1892), Professor Hymers College, Hull, since 1922, died at Hull 23 June MORTON (B.A. aged 81. BLAIR 12 August 1949, aged 63. WILLlAM Belfast, died University, s Queen's ary canon of StMary' in 1892), honor EDWARD ARNOLD ANTHONY (RA. 1888), Congregational NEWBERY (B.A. 80. FRANCIS CHARLES 1949, aged died 19 September 1949 at Banstead, Surrey, aged 81. died 24 November Cathedral, Glasgow, from Christ Church, Penrith, 1911), vicar of JOHN BAIRSTOW (B.A. 1890), for many years secretary of the y, NlVEN (B.A. HUGH 61. shire Union of Golf Clubs, died at Halif 9 1949, 1949, aged ax August aged 1937, died 8 July D., formerly Director 1900), knight, Sc. WILLIAM EDWARD BANNERMAN (RA. 1887), late vicar of PASCOE (B.A. July 1949, EnWIN HALL died in London 5 Survey of India, Westmorland, died in Ireland 5 October 1949, aged 82. of the Geological aged 71. ROBERT RICHARD BRANFORD (B.A. 1947) died at Brackley 29 mlsslOnary in PURSER (B.A. 1900), 1949, aged 29. CHARLES BERTRAND ry of the Pwo I author of a dictiona and 1904 to 1928, aged 71. Bromley College, Kent, FRANCIS DOUGLAS CAUTLEY (B.A. 1900), formerly headmaster died 25 June 1949 at Hawtreys Preparatory School, Westgate, died 23 September 21 June 1949, A. 1897) died at Hove I ilrr..W1XlT VIZARD (B. )1 � at the Lodge, Westgate on Sea, Kent, aged 71. ' iI, I ARDESHIR RUSTOM]I DALAL, K.C.I.E. (RA. 1907), formerly of ry of Lichfield, and PARRY WAY (B.A. 1892), prebenda Indian Civil Service, a director of the Tata Iron and Steel Company 1 December 1949, of Eccleshall, Staffordshire, died Limited, and a member of the Viceroy's Council for Planning fOimerly vicar 9. Development, died in Bombay 8 October 1949, aged 65. aged 7 39. 1931) died 20 June 1949, aged GEORGE YATES (B.A. JOHN HERBERT CRANGLE FEGAN (Matric. 1888), M.R.C.S., L.R.c.p ALFRED formerly deputy commissioner of medical services, Ministry Pensions, died at Leverstock Green, Hertfordshire, 26 July I aged 77. SAMUEL DAvENPORT FAIRFAX HARWOOD (B.A. 1901), head of chemical department, South-Eastern Agricultural College, Kent, died at Wye 3 July 1949, aged 69. CHARLES HERBERT HEATH (B.A. 1888), master at King School, Birmingham, from 1898 to 1931, curate of St Edgbaston, died at Edgbaston 22 June 1949, aged 84. MURRAY HORNIBROOK (RA. 1898) died 9 September Etretat, France, aged 76. GWILYM JAMES (B.A. 1905), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., of LIaneIly and Aberystwyth died at Aberystwyth 24 June 1949, aged 69. PHILIP LAKE (B.A. 1887), Reader in Geography in the University of Cambridge from 1919 to 1927, died in Cambridge 12 June 1949, aged 84. � 204 THE EAGLE 205 DONALD MACAULAY CARMICHAEL (Matric. Lent 1937) to OBITUARY MARGARET PARKINSON, daughter of Francis W. Parkinson, o( Blackburn, Lancashire-on 20 December 1949, at St Giles Cathed ral, OSWALD LONGSTAFF PROWDE Edinburgh. (1885-1949) JAMES SEALY CLARKE (Matric. 1882) to NORAH RIDPATH, widow of Kenneth Ridpath, captain, Carabineers-October 1949, in London. A TRIBUTE BY ALFRED CHAPPLE ROBERT STUART HUNTER (B.A. 1935) to MARY HENDERsoN O. L. PROWDE, C.M.G., M.LC.E., died on Saturday, 5 November, CAMERON, elder daughter of Mrs J. A. Cameron, of Colinton, in a London nursing home. Edinburgh-on 8 October 1949, at Colinton Parish Church. He was born in 1882 at Melsonby in Yorkshire, the eldest son of HARoLD GORDON MATHER (B.A. 1942) to FRANCES ELIZABETH the late Dr Edwin Longstaff Prowde, of Sunderland. He received MATHER, daughter of Dr F. H. Mather, of Lindfield, Sussex-on his early education at Pocklington School, Yorkshire ; and proceeded 17 December 1949, at All Saints' Church, Lindfield. in 1901 to St John's College, Cambridge. THOMAS HARVEY MILLER (B.A. 1935) to KATHLEEN MARY Prowde came up to a Cambridge so different from that of to-day MURRAY, only daughter of George Murray, of Wokingham-on that a few words about it are necessary to set the scene for the Old 25 March 1950, at Diisseldorf, Germany. Johnian whom we now commemorate. Indeed, we must perhaps go KENNETH FLETcHER NICHOLSON (B.A. 1933) to ANNIS BOWMAN even further back, to the year 1890 when, returning from an intense STRONG, only daughter of Norman H. Armitage of Bournemouth and epoch-making Professorship in Tokyo, there came to Cambridge on 22 December 1949, at Friends' House, London. a young man destined to forge and develop a weapon entirely new to its University. For, in 1890, Alfred Ewing-Iater Professor RICHARD BODlNGTON SERJEANT (B.A. 1932) to PRISCILLA AMy STOGDON, younger daughter of J. Stogdon, of Swanage-on Sir Alfred Ewing, F.R.S.-assumed the Chair of Mechanism and 15 October 1949, in London. Applied Mechanics. There had been, as yet, no appropriate Tripos : but suitable preparations were busily pushed forward at Free School RICHARD VINCENT (B.A. 1933) to MARIE LOUISE GUITARD, of Lane where the workshops, laboratories and lecture rooms remained Paris-on 6 May 1950, in London. until about 1922, when the Physics Department took over the site, Sir WILLIAM LAw WILLIAMS, Bart. (B.A. 1930) to BETTY and the Engineering Department moved to its larger and still ex KATHLEEN TAYLOR, stepdaughter of J. Nowell Philip, of The Haven, panding premises by Scroope Terrace. The necessary funds for the Torquay-on 22 April 1950. start were gathered, largely outside Cambridge, through friends, such as Kelvin and others. Ewing, Dr C. G. Lamb (London), and W. E. Dalby (later Professor in London), were the staff. In 1894, the first Mechanical Sciences Tripos was held. The examiners were Sir Alfred Ewing, Sir Osborne Reynolds, and Sir W. N. Shaw. Much good-humoured chaff was scattered on the interloping young Tripos, and its few adherents. This proved most salutary and invigorating : and it swiftly disappeared. Before quitting Ewing and his 1894 Tripos, a few lines may well be devoted to another young man, from some six thousand miles south of Cairo and the Niles. He took the Law Tripos, both parts in the same year, 1894, with First Class in each : he carried the George Long prize ; later became K.C. and Colonial Secretary, Transvaal. Now he is-one may safely style him-one of the two great Statesmen of the Empire. His portrait is close to those of Milton and Darwin in another College, founded by Lady Margaret : and he himself frequently renews his ties with Cambridge. 206 THE EAGLE OBITUARY 207 am 'Surveyor of Contracts ... One more note from the Niles. Three years later, 1897, an honorary province of Gharbia: for which I '. degree was conferred on a great hero of that time. The Latin address to the work itself: I like it, plenty of fresh air and plenty of riding As was steadily proceeding: the recipient of the honour was standing and no longer a mere draughtsman as I was at York. In fact one has rigidly to attention. Suddenly, in the end gallery opposite, a much authority that one does not know what to do with it at first." sO startling loosely-jointed dervish-operated by cords-began con So far he has been dealing with water as such, applied to crops and gratulatory antics. Kitchener-with others-could scarce forbear to their irrigation. The next stage is in the direction of water employed smile power-development, conservation and profitable application. In : he had returned from Khartoum, and Omdurman, where the fo r Blue and White waters join forces for their onward career of many 19 I 6 he goes up to Lake Tzana in Abyssinia to treat with their Princes hundreds of miles. They pass on by temple and pyramid to the great and authorities with regard to the Blue Nile and to the possible use Delta, and on to the Mediterranean Sea. Here Nature lifts the water of Lake Tzana for irrigation. While on leave in England he dined once more, and returns a portion to the great mountains and lakes once at my home-then in Luard Road-and thrilled my wife and Victoria Nyanza, and Tzana to repeat the endless circuit. me with his vivid tales of the lake, perched high up among the moun It is on this Delta, those Lakes, and their twin Niles that our tains, and of the astonishingly wild country through which the water Johnian began and continued his remarkable contribution to the poured, directed first towards the Indian Ocean before it curls back nations to whose lands they belong, as well as to the honour, prestige after a distance of some 120 miles : and how it then journeys towards and advantage of the British people, through whose training and the junction at Khartoum, between the immortal twins Blue and White. genius he had been fitted to undertake the honourable burden of Prowde was now at the summit of experience in harnessing water representing them there. to the generation of power. He was in charge of an important part During his firsttwo years Prowde did not enjoy the best of health of the second heightening of the Aswan Dam ; and resident engineer in spite of rugger in winter terms. It is, therefore, not a matter of in connexion with the Gezira Irrigation Scheme, which included the surprise that he became very "thoughtful"-should one call it-on Sennar Dam on the Blue Nile.

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